The First Curse

Then The Lord God said to the serpent: because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labour pains; you will bear children in anguish.

Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.

And He said to Adam, " Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it':

The ground is cursed because of you.

You will eat from it by means of painful labour all the days of your life.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

You will eat bread by e sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it,

For you are dust, and you will return to dust. Genesis 3:14-19

Sin carries a curse. Yet even at the very beginning God was telling the serpent, Adam and Eve, He had a plan and that plan was Jesus. He would be our curse for us and set us free from the curse.

Without relationship you live under a curse. Under a relationship with our God we are free from all the works of our enemy. Jesus was the new Adam who did not sin and went further to pay for the curse created by the first Adam.

As we come to God, in faith, we can be liberated from the effects of the curse. I am reminded as to how my daughter had faith to believe for healthy pregnancies and pain free childbirth. For a mother that had two Caesarean section births because of her inability to have normal births, this was a wonder to behold.

Christ frees us but we have to accept that freedom and walk by faith in it, otherwise we will walk around deceived that we are still under a curse. God is good and His love endures forever. Amen!